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Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the head and leg. (Wikipedia)

The defendant's evidence tends to show that he made the confessionary statements, both oral and in writing, on the officers' promises that the charge would be changed from murder in the first degree to murder in the second degree so that he could make bond and also escape the electric chair, which he knew was a penalty for first degree murder. (Justia › US Law)